A Funeral Fantasie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEDE FFGGHIHJKK BLBLBKBBH MNMNBBBB OBOBCPCP QBQB RSRS TBTBLULU VWVWQBQBAABCCBVPVVPPale at its ghastly noon | A |
Pauses above the death still wood the moon | A |
The night sprite sighing through the dim air stirs | B |
The clouds descend in rain | C |
Mourning the wan stars wane | C |
Flickering like dying lamps in sepulchres | B |
Haggard as spectres vision like and dumb | D |
Dark with the pomp of death and moving slow | E |
Towards that sad lair the pale procession come | D |
Where the grave closes on the night below | E |
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With dim deep sunken eye | F |
Crutched on his staff who trembles tottering by | F |
As wrung from out the shattered heart one groan | G |
Breaks the deep hush alone | G |
Crushed by the iron fate he seems to gather | H |
All life's last strength to stagger to the bier | I |
And hearken Do these cold lips murmur Father | H |
The sharp rain drizzling through that place of fear | J |
Pierces the bones gnawed fleshless by despair | K |
And the heart's horror stirs the silver hair | K |
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Fresh bleed the fiery wounds | B |
Through all that agonizing heart undone | L |
Still on the voiceless lips my Father sounds | B |
And still the childless Father murmurs Son | L |
Ice cold ice cold in that white shroud he lies | B |
Thy sweet and golden dreams all vanished there | K |
The sweet and golden name of Father dies | B |
Into thy curse ice cold ice cold he lies | B |
Dead what thy life's delight and Eden were | H |
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Mild as when fresh from the arms of Aurora | M |
While the air like Elysium is smiling above | N |
Steeped in rose breathing odors the darling of Flora | M |
Wantons over the blooms on his winglets of love | N |
So gay o'er the meads went his footsteps in bliss | B |
The silver wave mirrored the smile of his face | B |
Delight like a flame kindled up at his kiss | B |
And the heart of the maid was the prey of his chase | B |
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Boldly he sprang to the strife of the world | O |
As a deer to the mountain top carelessly springs | B |
As an eagle whose plumes to the sun are unfurled | O |
Swept his hope round the heaven on its limitless wings | B |
Proud as a war horse that chafes at the rein | C |
That kingly exults in the storm of the brave | P |
That throws to the wind the wild stream of its mane | C |
Strode he forth by the prince and the slave | P |
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Life like a spring day serene and divine | Q |
In the star of the morning went by as a trance | B |
His murmurs he drowned in the gold of the wine | Q |
And his sorrows were borne on the wave of the dance | B |
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Worlds lay concealed in the hopes of his youth | R |
When once he shall ripen to manhood and fame | S |
Fond father exult In the germs of his youth | R |
What harvests are destined for manhood and fame | S |
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Not to be was that manhood The death bell is knelling | T |
The hinge of the death vault creaks harsh on the ears | B |
How dismal O Death is the place of thy dwelling | T |
Not to be was that manhood Flow on bitter tears | B |
Go beloved thy path to the sun | L |
Rise world upon world with the perfect to rest | U |
Go quaff the delight which thy spirit has won | L |
And escape from our grief in the Halls of the Blest | U |
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Again in that thought what a healing is found | V |
To meet in the Eden to which thou art fled | W |
Hark the coffin sinks down with a dull sullen sound | V |
And the ropes rattle over the sleep of the dead | W |
And we cling to each other O Grave he is thine | Q |
The eye tells the woe that is mute to the ears | B |
And we dare to resent what we grudge to resign | Q |
Till the heart's sinful murmur is choked in its tears | B |
Pale at its ghastly noon | A |
Pauses above the death still wood the moon | A |
The night sprite sighing through the dim air stirs | B |
The clouds descend in rain | C |
Mourning the wan stars wane | C |
Flickering like dying lamps in sepulchres | B |
The dull clods swell into the sullen mound | V |
Earth one look yet upon the prey we gave | P |
The grave locks up the treasure it has found | V |
Higher and higher swells the sullen mound | V |
Never gives back the grave | P |
Friedrich Schiller
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